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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC71FCG30

1970-11-05 KANSAS CITY, Kansas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8325N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35A

Year of manufacture

1968 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680213

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB62DC

Registrant of record

KONTOUR SHAWN K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8325N Beech V35A Serious

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

BEECH V35A · N8325N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

FAIRFAX MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000D-8730T

Total time

510 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

701

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

W.ENG WOULD QUIT ALL PWR STTNGS,BOOST PUMP HI PSN.

Investigator remarks

METERING UNIT SET TO PROVIDE EXCSVLY HI FUEL FLO

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
74/L/CI L
POWERPLANT FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4265. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4265.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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